Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Tax Platform 

United States 

888827590

Insight to the working environment:

• Inclusive and supportive work environment. We promote sustainable engineering practices, well-being / healthy team dynamics, and value differences.
• Career development-- internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities.
• Work on launching and expanding our protection products across global markets.
• Seize greenfield opportunities on a fast-growing team.
• Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and numerous platform teams within Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• Build microservices, APIs to drive platform integrations across web and mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build interfaces and systems that can evolve to meet critical business needs.
• Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools, and gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure.
• Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution.

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years industry experience.
• Prior real-word experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Kotlin, Relational Databases, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AI development tools like Co-Pilot.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners.
• Experience with profiling, performance tuning, resiliency patterns and identifying bottlenecks in large-scale applications.
• Strong understanding of systems reliability, including observability, incident management, and building fault-tolerant services.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, mentor others, and drive engineering excellence across teams.

Offices: United States